
This not only includes controlling your ship, but also training the Kerbals, financing your mission and more. The game comes with 3 different modes, which all change the way you play the game:Ĭareer Mode – you control everything. A good friend of mine purchased it for me as a gift via steam as I showed some passion for it in a conversation seconds after finishing the Scott Manley video tutorial. I wasn’t one of those people.įirstly, I didn’t even buy the game. The majority of people will give up within the first 30 minutes of play. S people will give up within the first 30 minutes of play.

No single other game you have played will prepare you for the unforgiving, highly calculated and engulfing gameplay that is KSP. You will start a learning curve you have never experienced before. This isnt a casual game where you can hop in for 5 minutes, have your fill and then leave. Thats when the hunger started, thats when I knew I was going to lose myself to something.īefore I go any further I want to take a moment to say, this isnt the kinda game anyone can simply pick up and play. The video was 5 minutes of rocket blasting action followed by 20 minutes of empty clear space, followed by another couple of minutes of ‘Duna Landing’ action.

In the first video I saw he was sending a single Kerbal astronaut to a strange planet named ‘Duna’ which strongly resembled our very own neighbour Mars. I stumbled across a collection of videos by a guy named Scott Manley, a gentleman who seemed to be extremely passionate about this strange game with little green men (Kerbals) in well constructed and slow paced rockets. I first saw Kerbal Space Program on YouTube. Kerbal Space Program is a game that is extremely close to my heart, but as with these kinds of games, I have no idea where to start.
